Excambion

Excambion (from the same source as 'exchange'—Lat. cambire, 'to barter'), in Scotland, is the legal name of the contract whereby one piece of land is exchanged for another. The contract usually gives to the parties the right to recur to the original property in case of eviction from the land excambed. Heirs of entail may, with the same consents as are necessary to enable them to disentail, excamb all or any portion of the entailed estate. Where excambed lands are burdened with debts, they are freed of these by the excambion, and burdened with the debts previously affecting the lands acquired in exchange for them. See EXCHANGE (DEED OF).